What determines how states engage with their migrants and refugees? The extent literature on migration and citizenship, derived from the experiences of countries in Europe and North America, offers us clues, but it is unclear whether these factors are also important in 'non-traditional' migrant receiving countries. This talk will focus on research conducted in Egypt (2012, 2013 and currently), Morocco (2013) and Turkey (2014). It will examine how explanations from the existing migration and citizenship literature help us understand host state treatment toward migrants and refugees in these case studies, as well as how the existing literature falls short.

Kelsey is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She has a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. She is the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship, as well as project grants from the Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies and the Project on Middle East Political Science. Her work has been published by Jadaliyya, The PostColonialist, and the Cairo Review of Global Affairs.